Saturday, June 24, 2006

All Hail the pREGGIEdent

The latest issue of Game Informer had an interview with President of Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aime at E3. The following is an excerpt of the interview:

“(WiiConnect24) …if you’ve gotten to a particular part in a game, we could push content out to you, so you get to battle a new boss. Maybe you get a new artifact; Maybe you get a new weapon…(small bits of episodic content with WiiConnect24) that’s just one example…we see the system as something that’s going to be used by everyone in the household everyday…(like news updates/headlines?) All of that is possible…”

“(microtransactions?) All of that is possible with what it is we are trying to do. If our licensee partners want to go in that direction, it’s certainly possible in our system (we’ll give them freedom etc)”

“Our focus is on a substantially higher base than we achieved with Gamecube. We think that our strategy in terms of great core gamer games, expanded audience games should allow us to achieve that. Plus, with the stellar third-party support we’re getting, really, right at launch, that’s another major difference from what we did with Gamecube.”